So fun! I have vague memories of reading this book as a child, and I'm so glad we'll get to share it with our daughter!

The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear is full of the most expressive faces a mouse has ever worn. The narrator 'tricks' the mouse into giving him half a the juiciest, ripest strawberry...so that the 'big hungry bear' won't gobble it up for himself.

Used for "Going Bananas:Fruit" storytime-April, 2010.

Disturbingly good, if I remember correctly. Kind of dark. With glossy, deeply-pigmented pictures. I have fond memories of reading and re-reading this, mostly for the sake of the pretty pretty pictures. (I think there was a kind of Stranger-Than-Fiction-esque narrator who the protagonist hears, and that part was also kind of amusing but also kind of frustrating because I so wanted the little mouse to be able to enjoy his bloodred berry in peace and that derned narrator kept messing things up...)

Read to Trent 2-22-14